prolegomena

noun

Definition of prolegomenanext
plural of prolegomenon
as in discourses

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  1. discussions
  2. articles
  3. texts
  4. textbooks
Noun
  • The discussions were disclosed as part of a behind-closed-doors Nevada court case, during which Rupert Murdoch failed in an attempt to alter his family trust in favor of his eldest son Lachlan Murdoch.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2024
  • That was essential in all our discussions with potential investors.
    Dave Knox, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of discussions
Noun
  • The Tax Notes investigations team recently published a series of articles on private placement life insurance, a type of life insurance that is only available to wealthy investors.
    Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The thousands of news articles profiling her over the years rarely failed to mention her diminutive size, juxtaposing the seeming frailty of her 105-pound frame with her fiery prose.
    Amber Hunt, The Enquirer, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of articles
Noun
  • Eventually, six titles – among them religious texts and rabbinical commentaries – were repatriated in a ceremony in May 2022.
    Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Apple offers FaceTime for calls and iMessage for texts, but both only secure iPhone-to-iPhone, so that doesn’t work.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of texts
Noun
  • She was inspired by a character of the same name, a schoolgirl with pigtails, who appeared on the covers of Korean textbooks in the ’70s and ’80s.
    Radhika Seth, Vogue, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Fifty years later, in 1971, the Chicago Tribune documented how Menominee mother and activist Carol Warrington was jailed after pulling her children out of school in protest of the inaccurate and harmful depictions of Native people in their school textbooks.
    TIME, TIME, 25 Nov. 2024
Definition of textbooks
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